Infant Care
What are cloth diapers?
What is play?
Piaget's first stage of cognitive development
What is sensorimotor?
The fear of unfamiliar people or children
Skills related to small muscle movements
What are fine motor skills?
Body part you should use to test an infant's bath water.
What is your elbow?
The type of play engaged in by infants
What is SOLITARY play?
Seeing the world only in terms of own thoughts and feelings
What is egocentrism?
What is temperament?
Skills related to large muscle movements
What are gross motor skills?
Holding an infant upright against your shoulder
What is a shoulder hold?
A toy which fits a child's intellectual and physical stage
Knowing that objects exist even when they are out of sight
What is object permanence?
The bond between a caregiver and a child.
What is attachment?
Spaces in the skull where bones have not yet joined together.
What are fontanels?
On their backs, on a firm mattress, with nothing in the crib.
How should an infant be put to sleep?
Playing catch helps develops this type of skill.
What are GROSS MOTOR skills?
The ability to use reasoning and creative thinking to solve problems
What is deductive reasoning?
The process of learning to recognize and express one's feelings
What is emotional development?
It is NOT considered a physical milestone because not all babies do it.
What is crawling?
The death during sleep in an otherwise healthy infant
What is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome?
Highly organized play with leaders and followers
What is cooperative play?
Understanding objects keep the same weight, area, and amount when moved.
What is conservation?
The psychologist who studied attachment in monkeys
Harry Harlow
The process of learning to interact with others and to express oneself to others.
What is social development?